I've tried cheapies and expensive mascaras and my two favorites have continued to be Buxom Lash - $19 on sephora (named after my uptop, I'm sure.) and Diorshow - $25 on sephora (it smells like roses, I mean come on!).

I do enjoy trying all of the inexpensive drugstore mascaras, but I'm going to make a statement here: THEY WORK amazingly... for approximately 10 uses. Then they're clumpy and I hate them. Into the trash they go.

Well, move over kids - there's a new favorite in town.

Introducing (to me) Lancome's Hypnose Drama. $26 - sephora.

It's VOLUMINIZING (is that a word?), super-black, non-flaky and only requires ONE coat for my desired immoral look. Normally I must coat the 'ole lashes a few times (not for work, because come on. It's work.) before I go out to achieve the Tammy-Faye look, but not with this one, kids.

Try it. You might like it.

Now on to more pressing measures, like solving the financial crisis and ending world hunger...

I currently have 7 tubes of mascara, 2 avon (neither of which work the way I hoped) one drug store brand, 2 clinique both of which I love, and 2 Mary Kay. I mix and match them and putting my mascara on takes the most time of all my makeup.